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Let’s not let arguments over the Constitution’s Second Amendment violate the spirit of its First. President Obama believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. However, the Constitution not only guarantees an individual right to bear arms, but also enshrines the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press — fundamental principles that are essential to our democracy. Americans may disagree on matters of public policy and express those disagreements vigorously, but no one should be punished by the government simply because he or she expressed a view on the Second Amendment — or any other matter of public concern.

We recognize that the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, sparked an intense, and at times emotional, national conversation about the steps we can take as a country to reduce gun violence. In fact, your petition is one of many on the issue, and President Obama personally responded by sharing his views on this important issue.

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In a recent press conference, President Obama also addressed the Second Amendment and the important perspective that law-abiding gun owners bring to the public conversation on this issue:

Look, like the majority of Americans, I believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. This country has a strong tradition of gun ownership that’s been handed down from generation to generation. Obviously across the country there are regional differences. There are differences between how people feel in urban areas and rural areas. And the fact is the vast majority of gun owners in America are responsible — they buy their guns legally and they use them safely, whether for hunting or sport shooting, collection or protection.

But you know what, I am also betting that the majority — the vast majority — of responsible, law-abiding gun owners would be some of the first to say that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few from buying a weapon of war. I’m willing to bet that they don’t think that using a gun and using common sense are incompatible ideas — that an unbalanced man shouldn’t be able to get his hands on a military-style assault rifle so easily; that in this age of technology, we should be able to check someone’s criminal records before he or she can check out at a gun show; that if we work harder to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one in Newtown — or any of the lesser-known tragedies that visit small towns and big cities all across America every day. ———

No mention of the petition having been blocked. I responded directly to this email through the invite to do so at the bottom of it. I pointed out the USCOTUS ruling that First Amendent protection does not extend to protecting one’s living here, merely to expressing their opinion.

Then looking for the petition in question to see what the count was. It was gone. It was GONE. I contacted them there through that channel to suggest taking a petition down before the expire date, especially one that had garnered well over 100,000 signatures in less than two of the four weeks allowed was simply wrong.

I don’t know if it was just my bitching – hardly think so – but it is back.

Alex Jones is a white Al Sharpton. He will do ANYTHING for publicity. He is a deranged, sick, and hideous human being.

But he is right in what he said to Piers Morgan.

And another thing – who names their child “Piers”. Did the Morgan family live under piers? Was the child conceived under a pier? Did his mother know that the child would have the intellectual weight of a pier?

Jones seems honest about his views, he also knows alot more then Sharpton ever did. But he is so paranoid & over the top in seeing a major conspiracy behind every bush & under every rock. I believe Jones loves America, but his efforts to prevent it’s demise only play into the hands of those who want to destroy America.

Sharpton is a lying corrupt demagogue who is in the buisness of extortion to benefit himself all in the name of progressive racial harmony. I believe Sharpton does NOT love America, he sees it as a racist country that is unfair by design, & he would destroy it for his personal gain in a heartbeat. But that goes without sayng, that is what the RevAl has done ever since he was given a platform 3 decades ago.

Isn’t this the illuminati guy? I saw a video of his and I was wondering what the heck… he was all illuminati this and that? It was supposed to be a conservative point video but then veered off into this crazy avenue. I don’t know if the illumaniti exists but youtube is a little crazy with that right now and this guy is into that big time…

Obviously they chose this guy because he has a reputation of saying crazy stuff and the lemmings will look him up and then state that all right people are like that :-/

A petulant british twatface little knob getting tooled up by the ultimate crazy, whacked out numbnuts. That makes for more embarrassment for CNN, and that is about it. Of course Gawker and other retard lefties will insinuate that Jones speaks for we normal people who own guns-so it isn’t any help-but geeze, I’d rather watch a Hillary Clinton naked webcam show than these two douchenozzles try to prove which one of them should be euthanized first! Seriously.

While pierce m’organ retains the right to freedom of expression, well over 100,000 people think he doesn’t realize attacking our other rights make the pointed statement that he does NOT have a right to be here, and they are right. All that is just a matter of perspective, though, at least, only a matter of perspective for 0 and his communist ilk. See, the white house has forbid the publication of photos if they are of 0’s children. That’s not freedom of expression for a photographer, nosiree. http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/white-house-responds-to-deport-piers-morgan-petition-153578.html